and the eminent scholar Taqī al-Dīn al-Subkī compiled for him a mashyakha (a register of his teachers). He was a righteous man who passed away early on Tuesday, the nineteenth of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir, and his funeral was well attended.

Among those who also died that year was the great amir, al-Malik al-Muẓaffar (1): Shihāb al-Dīn Ghāzī ibn al-Malik al-Nāṣir Dāwūd ibn al-Muʿaẓẓam. He had studied hadith (2) and was a humble man. He died in Egypt on the twelfth of Rajab and was buried in Cairo.

Another was the Chief Judge (3), Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd-Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Dāwūd ibn Ḥāzim (4) al-Adhraʿī, a Ḥanafī. Learned and upright, he taught, issued fatwas, and served for a year as judge over the Ḥanafīs in Damascus before being dismissed. He then continued teaching at the Shibliyya for a time, after which he travelled to Egypt, stayed at Saʿīd al-Suʿadāʾ for five days, and died on Wednesday, the twenty-second of Rajab—Allah knows best.

[The year 713 AH then commenced]
It opened with the same officials still in office (5), while the sultan remained in the Ḥijāz and had not yet returned. The amir Sayf al-Dīn Qajlis (6) arrived on Saturday, the first of Muḥarram, coming from the Ḥijāz. He reported that the sultan was safe, that he had left him in al-Madīna al-Nabawiyya, and that the ruler was now near the borders of the realm; drums of rejoicing were beaten in gratitude for his well-being.

Soon after, a courier announced that the sultan had entered al-Karak on Sunday, the second of Muḥarram. On Tuesday, the eleventh of Muḥarram, he entered Damascus; the people went out, as customary, to greet him. I saw him returning from this ḥajj with a small piece of paper stuck to his lip. He alighted at the citadel and led the Friday prayer on the fourteenth of Muḥarram in the khutba enclosure of the Umayyad Mosque (7).